Sholom Rubashkin

Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin (30 October 1959-) was an American businessman and kosher meat-packing businessman who was sentenced to 27 years in prison in 2010 for financial fraud.

Biography
Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin was born in Brooklyn, New York to Haredi Jewish immigrant parents from Russia, and he began working in his father's butcher shop during the early 1980s. He later moved to Postville, Iowa to run the Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse and meat-packing plant, and its sales increased from $80 million in 1997 to $180 million in 2002. His company was investigated for issues such as animal treatment, food safety, environmental safety, child labor, and hiring of undocumented workers, and, on 12 May 2008, the FBI raided his workplace and arrested 389 workers with fradulent documentation. In November 2009, Rubashkin was convicted on 86 charges of financial fraud, and he was sentenced to 27 years in prison in 2010. On 20 December 2017, however, President Donald Trump commuted his sentence, arguing that he was serving much more time than others in his situation; his decision was influenced by his Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner.